Spotted some pictures of fully painted the PG Strike Freedom. Looks great, but I’m still not convinced that it’s anything but just a big MG. The release date is 11th December according to the official site.
Source: AmiAmi, Bandai Official Site
Japanese Hobby Shop Tagimi have received a PG Strike Freedom for display and have a 5 part series on their blog with pictures of the contruction process.
See the blog posts here.
Site YellowSubmarine Hobby Blog have gotten a sample of the PG Strike Freedom Gundam and have some shots of it, including the full internal frame. Check the links for more pics.
New scans of upcoming kits like PG Strike Freedom, MG ReZEL commander type and MG 00 Qan[T] have appeared in the December issue of Hobby Japan.
Source: Muso’s Album
What seems to be the final build of the PG Strike Freedom has been spotted at the All Japan Plamodel Hobby Show.
Gallery after the jump.
Strike Freedom Gundam has been announced as the next Perfect Grade kit in this month’s Hobby Japan magazine. The article states that the design will be done by Katoki Hajime (yeah!), release date is 10th December 2010. I’ll keep this post updated with any new information.
15/10/2010 Update – More pics from All Japan Plamodel Hobby Show 200 here
23/09/2010 Update – Added translated image from Bandai’s site. Pic taken from Hobbyfanatics forums.
18/09/2010 Update – Added images from Bandai’s Gundam 30th Anniversary site
17/09/2010 Update – Added prototype image from Bandai and new information
29/08/2010 Update – Added pics from Chara Hobby
20/9/09 Update: I added some posed photos, namely the Full Burst and shooting at multiple targets. While this kit may have awesome articulation, I find it hard to find a good pose that isn’t dorky.
About 30 hours later…
Quite happy with the final result, which is much cleaner than my previous God Gundam build. My worst experience with this kit was definately dealing with the wings, from sanding, masking, and then un-masking. By the time the paint had finished drying, the blu-tack had dried up a bit, and as a result was a real nightmare to get off. There’s still a bit of green crap stuck to the occasional place in the wing joints.
Other dramas included breaking one of the ball joints off the fingers, but luckily I was able to glue it back into place and it seems like its holding out well enough. I also lost one of the red verniers for the wings, and one of the rear leg covers. I also think I have over top coated some areas such as the chest, and under coated such as the backpack.
Overall, this kit requires a ton of patience to build, and tested my limits as a lazy modeller. Even with the 30 or so hours I spent on this already there’s still so much more that I could’ve done.
No posed shots yet, but the gallery after the jump.
12/09/09 : Finally completed today. Here’s some shots with my iPhone until I have time to take some hi-res shots and posing.
Preview of the pretty much completed Strike Freedom. The only things left are the railgun internals and the gold highlights on the wings, which can be finished in like 10 minutes. Sadly I lost one of the red verniers on the wings, and it’s a real eyesore without it.
Progress, progress!
Fair bit of progress this weekend.
An empty box means we're nearly done
More after the jump.
Very slow progress on this kit. Been almost a month since I opened the box and started cutting stuff up, and I haven’t even painted (well airbrushed) anything yet. But this weekend I actually managed to get the wings assembled at least.
As per my lineart, the wing internals will be gold still. I used Tamiya Gold spray, since I’m lazy, and I don’t think acryllic gold looks as nice when airbrushed on.
Back in Japan last year, I had a choice of either getting a Shin Musha Gundam or Strike Freedom. All I know now is that I’ve made a terrible mistake.
Something really bugs me about this suit. I think now the backpack/wings are too crazy, also there’s too much of that dark blue/black that doesn’t mesh well with the rest of the colours.
Anyway I’m going to put this kit out of it’s misery as (one of) my latest project.
